22 Iconic TV Homes Everyone Remembers

Ever wonder if some of the homes you saw on TV actually existed?

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The Cohen Family Home from The O.C.

TheO.C. was one of the most popular television shows on the air in the aughts. The show put the house in Newport Beach but the real home sits in Malibu. It was listed for $6.25 million two years ago. The home was built in 2002 just as the series started and is a prime example of the McMansion trend at the time. Want to see what has followed the McMansion in trendy home design?

The Wonder Years

The Arnold home played a prominent role in The Wonder Years throughout episodes and especially in the opening credits. Though the setting was never revealed, the actual home is set in Burbank, California and looks largely the same. The three-bedroom, one-story home was built in 1949 and became an iconic television home. While this home has some celebrity to it and is modest, not all celebrity homes fit that bill. Check out some of the ugliest celebrity homes.

Three’s Company

Jack, Janet and Chrissy asked you to come and knock on their door for eight seasons to watch their pratfalls as they navigated through life. The apartment often felt too small for all three of the roommates but it was entertaining to watch. If you’ve got houseguests coming over for the holidays, you’ll want to know these hints on how to make it go smoothly.

Laverne and Shirley

Laverne and Shirley were a riot in their basement apartment on the hit ABC show in the ’70s and so was the rest of the cast. Laverne and Shirley used to talk to Squiggy and Lenny through an old dumbwaiter. A dumbwaiter is just one of those old house features that seem out of place now. Check out 14 other odd home features that are no longer useful.

Golden Girls

An ad on a bulletin board at a grocery store brought them all together and for seven seasons on NBC it was non-stop silliness from the Golden Girls. The home was set in Miami but the outside model of the home sat on a Hollywood lot. The house was based on a home in Brentwood Los Angeles and the show’s designer added elements like columns, cypress wood along with rattan furniture and tropical upholstery. You can try these interior design tips to liven up your home.

Happy Days

The Cunningham home in Happy Days actually exists in California. The Colonial home used for exterior shots is actually in Los Angeles and was built in 1923. It has six bedrooms, two baths and nearly 4,000 square feet. It was on the market a while back for a cool $3.3 million. A $3 million home seems like pennies compared to the most expensive home in California.

Punky Brewster

The mis-matching Punky Brewster enthralled fans for four seasons on NBC and became a cultural touchstone for millions of young people. Buzz Aldrin made a guest appearance on the show following the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster to help children cope with the tragedy. Punky had dreams of becoming an astronaut at the time and she and her classmates had watched the shuttle launch live on TV.

The show was set in Chicago but the exterior of the building used for the show can be found in Los Angeles. The apartment building looks exactly like it did when the show used it for shots.

Mary Tyler Moore

She could turn the world on with her smile and had plenty of spunk in her television show. Her Minneapolis home has also garnered a lot of attention through the years. It last sold in 2017 for just $1.45 million, far below its estimated market value of $2.345 million. Mary just rented an apartment in the 9,000-square-foot Victorian home and its iconic turret.

The Beverly Hillbillies

For the Clampetts the oil business provided them wealth beyond their wildest dreams and made them fish out of water when they descended upon Beverly Hills. It turns out that home they purchased is something even oil money might have trouble buying. The real home got listed in 2017 for $350 million. It used to belong to Univision honcho A. Jerrold Perenchio, who bought it in 1986. It has 25,000 square feet of living space and was built in 1933. There’s a ballroom, wine cellar, salon along with 10.3 acres that include gardens, a tennis court and a 75-foot pool. It’s an 18th-century French neoclassical designed home. The home has since come down in asking price to $245 million.

Cartman’s House — South Park

Believe it or not, but South Park is in its 22nd season on Comedy Central and many of those scenes are as familiar as other long-running cartoon series. We’ll go ahead and guess that even Cartman might like one of these 25 game room ideas.

Full House

Who can forget TGIF on ABC and the intro music to Full House? People have recognized the San Fransisco home used for the exterior shot of the Tanner household so much the city had to ban tour busses of nine or more people from parking near the Victorian house that dates to 1883. Maybe the home’s owner is just tired of buses in front of his house. The owner, after all, is Full House creator Jeff Franklin.

Kardashians

It’s awfully exhausting trying to keep up with the Kardashians and their latest entanglement but the exterior of this home became famous/infamous from the reality show that “documented” their lives. Much like everything in reality TV, nothing is as it seems and this home was merely used as a decoy for security purposes. The Kardashians never lived here but interior shots of the family home were of the actual family home.

Parks and Rec House

Ann Perkins’ house from Parks and Rec does exist in real life but it’s obviously not in Pawnee. It can be found in Van Nuys, California and it’s pretty humble. The 1,407-square-foot home was built in 1948 and the exterior remains largely the same from the TV show.

Downton Abbey

Downton Abbey casts a striking image on television and it’s just as impressive in real life. The “real” Downton Abbey is Highclere Castle in Scotland and the estate dates back to 749. The palace got rebuilt in 1679 and nearly 100 years later a Georgian house got added. The estate underwent further change in 1842 when Sir Charles Barry finished final designs to transform it to Highclere Castle from Highclere Place House.